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Iran Launches Monkey Into Space: Reports
space.com ^
| 28 January 2013 Time: 09:18 AM ET
| Megan Gannon, News Editor
Posted on 01/28/2013 4:43:23 PM PST by jmcenanly
Iranian space officials announced Monday (Jan. 28) that they have successfully launched a live monkey into space, inching closer to the Islamic republic's goal of a manned mission, according to news reports.
The space capsule, called Pishgam, which means "pioneer" in Farsi, reportedly returned the monkey alive after a suborbital flight to space and back, according to Iranian news agencies.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: iran; space
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This is very similar to what we did in 1949. Of course, we didn't have the luxury of looking up how to do it on the Internet.
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posted on
01/28/2013 4:43:31 PM PST
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jmcenanly
To: jmcenanly
Meanwhile, we have shut down our manned space program.
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posted on
01/28/2013 4:48:29 PM PST
by
marktwain
(The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
To: jmcenanly
” inching closer to the Islamic republic’s goal of a manned mission”
Odd. Who’s manning the controls when these clowns pray five times a day?
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01/28/2013 4:48:29 PM PST
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max americana
(Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
To: jmcenanly
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01/28/2013 4:48:39 PM PST
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Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: jmcenanly
Was it wearing a dinner jacket?
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01/28/2013 4:51:17 PM PST
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: jmcenanly
Cool! Ahmadinejad is in space! Good for him!
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01/28/2013 4:51:24 PM PST
by
MeganC
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: jmcenanly
As I recall the first US suborbital flight with the monkey Ham riding in a Mercury capsule was in the early 1960s about a year before Alan Shepards suborbital flight Mercury 7 flight in May 1961.
I thought monkeys were considered unclean for Muslims.
To: jmcenanly
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01/28/2013 4:52:27 PM PST
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Vob
(free radical community organizer)
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To: jmcenanly
Bet the monkey was glad to get out of the place...
To: jmcenanly
Eerie similarities!
Iran Launches Monkey Into Space
Obambi Launches Money Into Toilet
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01/28/2013 4:55:39 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(Arguing with a liberal is like playing chess with a pigeon.)
To: jmcenanly
That looks like a chimp, not a monkey.
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01/28/2013 4:57:30 PM PST
by
LukeL
(Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
To: jmcenanly
Ah yes, they need to try a goat too. They will need one as an entertainment package aboard some future Islamic space station. But sadly there will be no PIGS IN SPACE!
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01/28/2013 5:01:32 PM PST
by
Empireoftheatom48
(God help the Republic but will he?)
To: Jonty30
Poor Monkey?
I think he is one Lucky Monkey.
To bad he did not have the awareness to realize how cool it would be to be in space.
You know why they don’t send Dogs into space?
They can’t stick their head out of the window. :)
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01/28/2013 5:08:20 PM PST
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mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: MeganC
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01/28/2013 5:10:37 PM PST
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andy58-in-nh
(Cogito, ergo armatum sum.)
To: LukeL
It is a rhesus Monkey.
In addition to being popular for medical experiments, one of them became quite famous late last year
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01/28/2013 5:11:43 PM PST
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jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
To: jmcenanly
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posted on
01/28/2013 5:16:27 PM PST
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MarMema
To: mylife
This is Iran, not the humane society. The monkey was probably launched successfully, but I doubt that ship had heat shields.
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01/28/2013 5:16:27 PM PST
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Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: Jonty30
Exactly - so I hope it died quickly and painlessly. Poor thing.
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01/28/2013 5:19:34 PM PST
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MarMema
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